p2p related news sites or blogs:

• Ars Technica
• The Register
• CNET
• NewsForge
• SecurityFocus
• Recording Industry vs The People
• Freedom to Tinker

Some worthwhile forums to visit, with their start dates listed:

• Slyck 2002-07-26 (specializes in original p2p news)
• Half Evil 2003-04-28 (on this domain here)
• P2P Forums 2003-05-12
• BeatKing 2003-10-23 (specializes in music discussion)

Organizations which support intellectual freedom, by opposing intellectual property/slavery

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Free Software Foundation

Recommended p2p clients, which contain no adware or spyware:

• ED2K + Kademlia network - forward ports TCP 4662, UDP 4665 (aMule), and UDP 4672
  eMule (Microsoft), aMule (Linux + Microsoft + Mac)
• Gnutella network - forward ports TCP 6346 and UDP 6346
  Shareaza (Microsoft), FrostWire (Linux + Microsoft + Mac)

Parodies:

• CalebStation 7 author = crazycaleb
• Peer Impact + MashBoxx author = Drake51
• Soulseek - Budget author = unknown

Whois sites for IP address info:

• ARIN
• RIPE
• APNIC
• LACNIC
• AfriNIC